Ergotism is a 8 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 11 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 13 points.
You can make 419 anagrams from letters in ergotism (egimorst).
First recorded in 1850-55; ergot + -ism
ergotism or ergot poisoning is due to the use of rye that has become diseased through the attack of a fungus, Claviceps purpurea.
The first undoubted instance of ergotism in England belongs to the eighteenth century.
Chronic poisoning, or ergotism, used frequently to occur amongst the poor fed on rye infected with the Claviceps.
With decomposed breads we take the poisons that produce pellagra, kak-ke, ergotism and acrodinia.
Thus far the best-known examples of poisoning by the products of micro-organisms are botulism and ergotism.
This is a Latin letter by Dr. Baker, and gives a good history of the various epidemics of ergotism.
This reference to ergotism in England in 1676 is given also in Th.
It is almost exclusively among the peasantry that symptoms of ergotism have been seen, and among children particularly.
The convulsive form of ergotism mostly begins with some cerebral disturbance.
Thus far the foreign experience of ergotism, both medieval and modern, and of its several types.
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